Welcome to the Autumn issue
of the Smarter Travel Campus ezine! We hope you will find it a
helpful way of keeping in touch with news and events taking place in
relation to smarter travel for our third level Partners around the
country. If you would like to submit a news item for a future issue
we would be delighted to hear from you, please email
info@smartertravelcampus.ie

The new
Student Leap Card can be used by students as an
ID to buy special student tickets as well as to
pay-as-you-go for travel by Topping Up with
Travel Credit and using it like a Leap Card. If
you are a full time second or third level
student, you can apply for a Student Leap
Card.

From 1st
August, if you are aged between 16 and 18 you
can use a personalised Leap Card with your name
and photograph on it. For a limited period of
time you can order a free child Leap Card for 16
to 18 year olds. Read
More

Is
your campus ready to win ? Smarter Travel Campus
Awards 2015

Would you
like your campus promotion of walking, cycling,
public transport and carsharing to be recognised
at a national level. Your campus can enter in
various categories and entries can be submitted
from this September, with the Awards
ceremony in March 2015.

NUIG have
recently opened their new secure bicycle
compound, which is located to the west of the
Arts Science Building. The bicycle compound has
access controlled gates and turnstiles for all
staff and students who have a valid student /
staff University ID card, which can be swiped
for access/exit, and a capacity for over 300
bicycles

Do your new students
know how to plan their journey from home to campus? Let them
know they can download the national Journey Planner free of
charge – as an app for Windows, Apple or Android, or online at
www.transportforireland.ie.The journey planner provides
door-to-door information on all available travel options for
journeys to, from & within the Republic of Ireland and
will make it easier for those who are new to your campus to
work out how best to get there!